'Love & Hip Hop Hollywood' Star Omarn -- Gay Rapper Good for the Show (VIDEO)

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'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood' sts an openly gay rapper, which has sparked some major backlash om the other straight male stars on the show.

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BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND

The newt member of "Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" believ he's beg shunned by st members bee they don't want to share the small screen wh an openly gay rapper. * gay guy on love and hip hop hollywood *

Depictns of same-sex upl and gay culture are beg more and more mon to televisn, yet documentg a relatnship between two men the historilly homophobic world of hip hop may be a Christopher and Mil Brock hope their story will help affect change a muny that’s been largely ristant to UP for the ee Indie Foc movi newsletter >>“It’s hard bee there is no prototype to follow, ” said Christopher, 29, over drks Hollywood. ”On Monday, an anticipated episo which Brock out to his ex-girliend will be followed by a special roundtable discsn regardg homophobia hip hop. Christopher is openly gay but Brock’s fay didn’t know about his sexualy before the show premiered (some of his fay members are no longer speakg to him, he said).

'LOVE AND HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD' -- NEW CAST MEMBER ... RAPPERS WON'T SHOOT WH ME 'CSE I'M GAY

* gay guy on love and hip hop hollywood *

Last year “Empire” broke ground by featurg a black gay character for s drama that tak place the world of hip hop.

Historilly, realy seri have relegated gay men to the sikick/bt-iend role; characters who orb around straight unterparts.

Black gay men have been further siled, limed to stereotypil rol such as stylists or personal doceri, “Tha Life Atlanta, ” bucked the trend by showg myriad black gay men livg and lovg, but was only seen onle after multiple works passed on a show as groundbreakg as MTV’s “The Real World, ” rponsible for showg some of realy televisn’s earlit imag of queer life Ameri, experienced a shock a ago when a black man me out a season where had already st a gay roommate ( was the first time the show featured two gay men s st). Christopher and Brock’s prence on a high-profile platform such as VH1 uld help chip away at least some of the misogyny and homophobia herent rap culture.

‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ CASTS GAY RAPPER MILAN CHRISTOPHER

Omarn has no problem wh gay rapper Milan Christopher appearg on the new season of "Love & Hip Hop Hollywood" ... but he also don't want his storyle riddled wh homophobia. * gay guy on love and hip hop hollywood *

Still, the ia of a gay male breakg mastream rap seems unheard of. “I want to do hardre rap, ” Christopher said, “but I’ve had iends say you shouldn’t bee you’re gay. A and Public Enemy ma no qualms about their disda for gay men their lyrics.

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Viewers will be hooked by the love triangle featurg Milan, an openly gay rapper, producer, entreprenr, and mol, who is entwed between Mil and Amber. * gay guy on love and hip hop hollywood *

By the late ‘90s, the Beastie Boys had formally apologized for homophobic lyrics s semal 1986 but, “Licensed to Ill” (which was origally supposed to be tled “Don’t Be a Faggot”). Tyler, the Creator has repeatedly argued his age of gay slurs.

50 Cent once publicly nounced gay men “but women who like women, ” he said, “that’s ol. And years after famoly aligng wh Elton John at the Grammys, Emem, long cricized for his e of gay slurs, snagged a rap album Grammy for a rerd that had multiple slurs on past stallments of “Love & Hip Hop, ” viewers watched female mols Eri Mena and Cyn Santana fall and out of love, and a handful of female st members intify as lbian and bisexual.

“Moments like this don’t happen often for black gay men, even scripted televisn, ” said Drew-Shane Daniels, founr and edor chief of Med magaze, a news and culture se for black gay men. “For so long black gay characters uld not stand on their own.

LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD TAK A SMALL STEP FORWARD FOR BLACK GAY MEN

Omarn ni he refed to film scen wh his "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood" -star Milan Christopher bee he's gay. * gay guy on love and hip hop hollywood *

“It’s been abundantly clear that there’s a certa openns to the exprsn of displeasure of the gay muny.

Monday------------MORE:In their own words, on beg black and (openly) gay HollywoodHollywood appears still wary of gay black men’s marketabilyPHOTOS: Gay celebri: Who is out?

They beme the first openly gay uple on VH1's realy shows. I know I will always be gay and have attractn for men but..

APRYL JON SAYS OMARN DID ‘LOVE & HIP HOP’ TO DISPEL GAY RUMORS

Well bee hip hop is known as beg herently homophobic (i do not believe that but 's a stereotype), and although there has been and still is homophobia the hip hop muny, queer rappers and hip hop heads are out here. ) gay and qutng, and more trans artists have entered the mix recent years.

'LOVE & HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD' STAR OMARN -- GAY RAPPER GOOD FOR THE SHOW (VIDEO)

Adrienne, who sists she’s straight and “only gay for Snoop.

'LOVE AND HIP-HOP HOLLYWOOD' SPOILERS; OPENLY GAY UPLE JOS THE ST

An aspirg rapper himself, Bobby is the anchise’s first openly gay ma st member. We see him alg wh homophobia the hip-hop dtry as well as stgglg his relatnship wh his boyiend Jefey, who Bobby learns is cheatg on him wh his ex Malik.

Miami Tip clash wh her iend Scy Santana, an openly gay rapper, who was shot a drive-by last December which he believ was a hate crime. Rappers Won't Shoot wh Me 'Cse I'm Gay.

VH1’S LOVE & HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD RAPPER MIL "KD-OF" REGRETS COMG OUT AS GAY

The newt member of "Love and Hip Hop Hollywood" believ he's beg shunned by st members bee they don't want to share the small screen wh an openly gay rapper. Not bee he's gay but bee he has no cred the rap game. The rappers say they want nothg to do wh Milan bee he's a joke, but we're told Milan's ma clear to producers the other rappers have ma their feelgs about gay rappers obv.

TELEVISN: BLACK GAY UPLE VH1’S ‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ BREAKS NEW GROUND

Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood has a new st member, and he is an openly gay rapper by the name of Milan Christopher. Mil, a Wt Coast rapper, who was raised wh church valu bravely fac his tth, when he realiz he’s love wh Milan, an openly gay man, ” the prs release reportedly reads.

‘LOVE & HIP HOP: HOLLYWOOD’ CASTS GAY RAPPER MILAN CHRISTOPHER

While some attribute the st’s ristance to a lack of talent, Milan thks he is beg ostracized bee he is gay.

Bee spe attempts by Kanye Wt and "Empire" to break down one of the last barriers of acceptance hip-hop, beg out and gay rap is still a risky proposn might end wh tonight's (Oct. Though the pair have been together for two years, both are anx about how their fai, and the dtry, will react to the ep will be followed by a roundtable discsn, "LHH: Out Hip Hop, " about homophobia hip-hop and the lack of acceptance of homosexualy the black church and mastream this sneak peek above of the special, which airs tonight at 11 p. "I thk what the black church has gotten wrong is the ia that homosexualy is a s, " says Rev.

*BEAR-MAGAZINE.COM* GAY GUY ON LOVE AND HIP HOP HOLLYWOOD

Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood’s gay uple Milan and Mil are the challenge the show’s dience needs. .

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